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Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it. -- Stanley Clarke
I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too. -- Rick Danko
I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me. -- John Entwistle
Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream. -- Geezer Butler
There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing. -- Graham Coxon
I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally. -- Ken Burns
I always got great respect as a bass player. -- Bill Wyman
Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know -- Jack Bruce
The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player. -- Mike Gordon
I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend. -- Miroslav Vitous
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands. -- Adam Jones
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar. -- Tina Weymouth
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. -- Miroslav Vitous
I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver. -- Chely Wright
The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours. -- Suzi Quatro
None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back. -- Paul McCartney
I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh. -- Maurice Gibb
I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years. -- Mike McCready
Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his playing was suited for a different style of band. -- Lou Gramm
As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player. -- Neil Innes
I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players. -- Brian Eno
A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else. -- Hunter Hayes
In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead. -- David Amram
I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence. -- Mike Gordon
For my money, Ray Brown is the greatest living bass player. Every great thing that's happened on bass since Ray Brown -- all of us point back to him. That's where it started, you know. Ray Brown is definitely a walking master, and to get to play with him is obviously an opportunity that no one should ever pass up. -- Christian McBride
I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music. -- Billy Sheehan
A lot of other bass players have told me I'm the only bass player who plays with a pick but sounds like he's playing with the thumb and fingers, which is a great compliment. -- Glenn Hughes
So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore. -- Miroslav Vitous
My heroes are guys like Frank Capra and Elia Kazan and Coen brothers and Terry Gilliam, more so than a lot of bass players at this point in my life. So I've always been an old-film nut and have very much enjoyed doing videos over the years. -- Les Claypool
So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it. -- Miroslav Vitous
Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals. -- Diplo
Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players. -- Gerry Mulligan
Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move. -- John Densmore
While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track. -- Bryan Ferry
Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass. -- Donald Dunn
Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything. -- Cootie Williams

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